YOONSUCK CHOE

Associate Professor

Email: choe@tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-5466
Office: HRBB 322B
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe

Ph.D. Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
M.A. Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
B.S. Computer Science, Yonsei University, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brain Networks Lab, Neural Intelligence Lab, Multi-scale modeling of mouse brain networks project, Topographica cortical map simulator project

AWARDS

Best Paper Award IEEE CIMSVP 2009

Best Paper Award ICPR 2008

Big 12 Faculty Fellowship, 2006

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2007 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2001-2007

Intern, Exploratory Research and Development Group, Advanced Technology Division, HNC Inc. San Diego, 1999

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

Neural Information Processing — Letters and Reviews (2002—)

Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM 2003, 2005).

IASTED Conference on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (NCI 2004).

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004). IEEE Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS 2004, 2006).

IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2005).

Post-IJCNN Workshop on Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware (BIMH 2005).

Post-IJCNN Workshop on Neurodynamics and Intentional Dynamic Systems (IDS 2005, panelist).

International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning (ISABEL 2006).

National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007).

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008).

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).

Neural Computing Surveys (2001).

Neurocomputing (2002, 2004, 2005).

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci; 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006).

Neural Networks (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2002, 2004).

Biological Cybernetics (2004).

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2005).

Journal of Computational Neuroscience (2006).

International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (2005).

Neural Information Processing — Letters and Reviews (2006).

Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (2006).

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (2006).

INNS-ENNS-INNS Tri-society Newsletter (2006).

Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation (2007).

Connection Science (2007).

IEEE: 2006—

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2000—

International Neural Networks Society (INNS): 2001—

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 2001—

Cognitive Science Society: 2002, 2004

Society for Neuroscience: 2004—

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Jaerock Kwon and Yoonsuck Choe. “Facilitating Neural Dynamics for Delay Compensation: A Road to Predictive Neural Dynamics?,” Neural Networks, 22:267-276, 2009.

Choonseog Park, Yoon H. Bai, and Yoonsuck Choe. “Tactile or Visual?: Stimulus Characteristics Determine Receptive Field Type in a Self-organizing Map Model of Cortical Development.” In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing, pages 6-13, 2009. Best Student Paper Award.

Yoon H. Bai, Choonseog Park, and Yoonsuck Choe. “Relative Advantage of Touch over Vision in the Exploration of Texture.” In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages 1-4, 10.1109/ICPR.2008.4760961, 2008. Best Scientific Paper Award.

Heeyoul Choi, Seungjin Choi, and Yoonsuck Choe. “Manifold Integration with Markov Random Walks.” In Proceedings of the 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2009), pages 424-429, 2008.